elfrc – a resource compiler for ELF systems – “elfrc is a program which can turn arbitrary files into ELF object files which can then be linked into your program directly and accessed via simple, user-defined symbol names.”

armstrong on software: UBF and VM opcocde design – “the byte code for PLUS should be 43 in all byte coded VMs – there should be laws that make it a criminal offense for the opcode to be anything other than 43”. Never thought about it, but it makes a lot of sense.

Gostai – robotics for everyone – “Our technology is based on a new script language that brings totally new features in terms of parallelism, event-based programming and distributed object management with UObject.”

Lisp, 50th Birthday – “In October 1958, John McCarthy published one in a series of reports about his then ongoing effort for designing a new programming language that would be especially suited for achieving artificial intelligence.”

Context Free Art – “Context Free is a program that generates images from written instructions called a grammar. The program follows the instructions in a few seconds to create images that can contain millions of shapes.”

Symbian Foundation – “industry leaders are coming together to establish Symbian Foundation, to bring to life a shared vision and to create the most proven, open and complete mobile software platform” Symbian is going open source under the Eclipse Public License, kudos Nokia!

code_swarm – Impressive visualizations of the “life” (commits, files, committers) of different open source projects.

The Wealth of Networks – WikiNotes – “This Wiki is an invitation to collaborate on building a learning and research environment based on Yochai Benkler’s book, The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom”

The Future of the Internet?And How to Stop It – “The Future of the Internet explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity?and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success.”

Bacteria Make Major Evolutionary Shift In the Lab – ** Posted using Viigo: Mobile RSS, Sports, Current Events and more ** Auxbuss sends us to New Scientist for news sure to perplex and confound creationists: scientists have watched a new, complex evolutionary trait develop in the lab. “A major evolutionary